Colin D Gordon

“This is not a library, it’s a coffee shop”. This was how Raquel Llanes, manager of the Departure Cafe in Barcelona’s Raval area, cited by the Euronews correspondent Rebecca Ann Hughes, vented her frustration regarding the people who arrived, ordered only an expresso, occupied a table for eight hours or more, asked her to turn […]

“You could fit the whole British army into Wembley Stadium and still have room for some of the French”. This was how the Russian state TV presenter, Dimitry Kiselev, cited by the Mail journalist James Reynolds on March 3rd, contemptuously dismissed the pledge by British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “to put boots on the […]